Grant: Master's Award: Canada Graduate Scholarships
Direct Payment
$17,500.00
The Fashionable Prosthetic: Investigating the visibility and new fashion of prosthetic research.
EF 2010-11
Résumé
This research will explore the relationship between the technological advancements of prostheses and the emergence of prostheses as fashion. This research intends to argue that the technological advancements in health research - specifically prostheses and implants - have refigured a conversation based purely on form and function to one of potential, aesthetics and art. The assertion is that prostheses have become the means by which to transform identity and the body itself.
Programme
Master's Award: Canada Graduate Scholarships
Bénéficiaire
Emplacement
British Columbia, Canada
Type
Grant
Source
CIHR Funding Decisions Database
Tel que publié
Id
224416
Name
Fiedrich Kristina E
Region
British Columbia
Country
Canada
Orgtype
Research Institution
Instname2
Human Development, Child and Youth Health
Theme2
Social / Cultural / Environmental / Population Health
Prcname2
Canada Graduate Scholarships Master's Awards B
Projecttitle
The Fashionable Prosthetic: Investigating the visibility and new fashion of prosthetic research.
Programtype2
Studentship Programs
Orgnameinp2
Direct Payment
Cihramount2
$17,500
Cihrequipment2
$0
Programname2
Master's Award: Canada Graduate Scholarships
Keyworddelim
Aesthetics; Art Research; Body; Contemporary Culture; Engineering; Health; Posthumanism; Prostheses; Technology; Transformation
Abstract
This research will explore the relationship between the technological advancements of prostheses and the emergence of prostheses as fashion. This research intends to argue that the technological advancements in health research - specifically prostheses and implants - have refigured a conversation based purely on form and function to one of potential, aesthetics and art. The assertion is that prostheses have become the means by which to transform identity and the body itself.
Competitiondate
201102
Approvedterm2
1 yr 0 mth
Pinamesdelim
Fiedrich, Kristina E
Approvedterm
1 an 0 mois
Cihrcontribution2
~ $17,500~ $0~
